Personal Info
Known For
Gender
Birthday
Place of Birth
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Biography
Known for
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
It's Tough Being a Man
The original TV Drama series the famous Tora film series was based on.
The Yellow Handkerchief
A convict, newly released from prison for murder, joins two strangers on a road trip through Hokkaido to visit his ex-wife, whom he hasn't seen in four years, knowing that if she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
おれの義姉さん
The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
The Neon Taiheiki
This unconventional comedy is set in the world of Osaka's popular cabarets and tells the story of a man who has dedicated his life to the nightlife industry.
A Class to Remember
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.
Mizu tamari
The stage is Tokyo, a factory town in a downtown area. The young people who work at the bottom of society and one of them, the older sister of the people who work at the bottom of society, no matter how much they are trampled, are written to live a strong life. It is a film adaptation of two short stories of Fumio Niwa's "Water Pool" and "Insects in the Schoolyard."
Live Again Tomorrow
Yamada Maki, who has a strained relationship with her father and a protective older brother, Katsuyoshi, faces a series of emotional challenges, including a failed marriage proposal and a complicated romance with her boyfriend, Ishiyama. After a series of events, including a fight with Ishiyama and a revelation about her parentage, Maki chooses to dedicate herself to Katsuyoshi. Their happiness is in danger.